Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry

Stimuli-responsive Functional Materials & Devices

We  develop polymers with new responsive functionalities and integrate them into devices, to meet industrial and societal challenges in the fields of sustainable energy, healthcare, and personal comfort.

Developing devices to demonstrate the value of new polymers 

Our group is internationally recognized for a complete chain‐of‐knowledge approach spanning from synthesis to device fabrication. In our view, integration of newly‐developed polymers into devices that employ their functionality is essential for demonstrating scientific and economic value. To pursue this integrated approach, we employ staff members with strong expertise in organic synthesis, self-assembly, nano‐ and micro‐structuring, polymer chemistry and technology, mechanics, device optics and physics. We have extensive expertise in manufacturing and testing of devices on a prototype scale.

We develop functional materials by utilizing top‐down and bottom‐up strategies combining molecular design and synthesis, processing and device integration. For bottom‐up structuring of polymers we often apply self‐organization of photopolymerizable liquid crystals into defect‐free, monolithic structures with a wide variety of molecular architectures and functionalities. Often used top-down techniques are photolithography, photo-embossing, holography and (inkjet) printing.

Meet our staff

Full Professor

Albert Schenning

Full Professor

Dick Broer

Associate Professor

Michael Debije

Assistant Professor

Danqing Liu

Cees Bastiaansen

Our research lines

Sustainable Energy

Health

Personal Comfort

News

March 8, 2023
Yari Foelen speaks about Useeble smart stickers at EHV Innovation cafe
EHV Innovation Café on March 30th
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January 26, 2023
Cardboard with a more sustainable coating
Sterre Bakker defends her thesis at the department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry on January 27, 2023.
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More news
Yari Foelen, as an entrepreneur in the Faculty of Impact, had a meeting with Constantijn Van Oranje-Nassau, Special Envoy of Techleap.nl at the Gate in Brainport Eindhoven
January 18, 2023
Rob Verpaalen receives the DPI Thesis Award for his Phd Work on making commodity polymers stimuli-responsive!
November 29, 2022
French artist Lucien Bitaux partners with SFD to create “Nadir”
November 29, 2022
Mert Astam winner of the 3rd ICMS PhD Publication Award!
November 4, 2022

Student opportunities

The mission of the Stimuli-responsive Functional Materials & Devices group is to educate students in the field of polymer materials spanning from synthesis to device fabrication.

Recent Publications

Our most recent peer reviewed publications

Meet our Alumni

Hitesh Khandelwal

Hitesh works as European New Product Development Leader at Owens Corning.

Jurica Bauer

Jurica works as Assistant Professor at the MERLN Technology-Inspired Institute for Regenerative Medicine .

Marc del Pozo Puig

Marc is Team Leader for New Product Introductions (NPI) at IAI industrial systems

Marina Pilz del Cunha

Marina works as Lead Technology Scout at Findest

Management & Office Assistant

Marjolijn Voragen

E: m.c.m.voragen@tue.nl

T: +31 (0)40 2473772

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